2020'de Marmara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi'nden mezun oldu. Aynı üniversitede yüksek lisansını tamamladı (2023). Halihazırda Erciyes Üniversitesi'nde doktorasına devam etmekte ve Erciyes Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi'nde araştırma görevlisi olarak görev yapmaktadır.
Dr. Akbay graduated from Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Theology in 2008. Between 2008 and 2012, he conducted research through various exchange programs and internship scholarships in the United States and Germany. He completed his master's degree in the Psychology of Religion at SDU Institute of Social Sciences in 2011 with a thesis titled "Rollo May's Understanding of Individual and Religion," and his doctorate in Logic in 2017 with a dissertation titled "The Epistemic Origins of Concepts in the Context of Being, Language and Thought in Platonic and Aristotelian Philosophy." During 2013-2014, he conducted doctoral research at King's College London with a TÜBİTAK 2214 scholarship. He served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Logic at SDU Faculty of Theology between 2018 and 2025. During 2024-2025, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, with a TÜBİTAK 2219 postdoctoral research scholarship. He received his associate professorship certificate from the Council of Higher Education (ÜAK) in July 2023. Since February 2025, he has been serving at the same institution with the title of Associate Professor. Dr. Akbay conducts research on Plato, Aristotle, the Skeptics, Epicureans, Stoics, and al-Fārābī.
PROF. DR. FERRUH ÖZPİLAVCI – CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
- Year and Place of Birth: 1974, Kırşehir, Turkey
- Marital Status: Married, father of three children
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EDUCATION
- 1992 – Adapazarı Imam Hatip High School
- 1997 – Marmara University, Faculty of Theology (Bachelor’s Degree)
- 2000 – Marmara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Master’s Degree)
- Thesis: The Theory of the Soul in Abu’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
- 2008 – Marmara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Ph.D.)
- Dissertation: Natural Philosophy in Abu’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- 1999–2008: Research Assistant, Marmara University, Institute of Social Sciences
- 2008–2009: Research Assistant, Department of Logic, Faculty of Theology, Marmara University
- 2009–2011: Lecturer, Faculty of Theology, Marmara University
- 2011: Assistant Professor
- 2017: Associate Professor
- 2022: Full Professor
- Currently: Chair of the Department of Logic, Faculty of Theology, Marmara University (as of 17.12.2024)
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INSTITUTIONS WHERE HE HAS TAUGHT COURSES
- Marmara University
- Ibn Haldun University
- 29 Mayıs University
- Near East University
- Classical Thought School (Klasik Düşünce Okulu – KDO)
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ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
- 2010–2023: Head of the Department of Translation and Publication, Turkish Manuscripts Institution
- 18 April 2023 – 15 August 2024: Acting President of the Turkish Manuscripts Institution
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PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES
- 2004–2010: Actively involved in the publication of numerous classical and modern works in collaboration with the founder of Litera Publishing, Mr. Muhittin Macit.
- Published works include subjects such as philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Sufism, theology, Islamic law, architecture, psychotherapy, and literature.
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PROJECTS AND COORDINATION
- Coordinated the preparation and publication of hundreds of classical manuscripts through the “1001 Works Project,” including translations, transcriptions, critical editions, and facsimile prints.
- Contributed to the transmission of classical manuscript heritage to contemporary readers.
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FIELDS OF INTEREST
- Classical logic
- Islamic tradition of logic
- Natural philosophy
- Epistemology
- History of Islamic thought
- Manuscript studies
- Academic publishing
PUBLICATIONS AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
1. Seyyid Şerif Cürcani ve diğerleri. (Nureddin Muhammed b. Şerîf Cürcânî, Mehmed Hâlis Efendi), Mantık Risaleleri (Risâle-i Suğrâ - Risâle-i Kübrâ - Dürre fi’l-Mantık - Velediyye - Gurre fi’l-Mantık - Mîzânü’l-Ezhân), (Arapça, Farsça, Osmanlıca), Çeviri - Çeviri Yazı - Eleştirmeli Metin, İnceleme, Tıpkıbasım: Ferruh Özpilavcı, Mustafa Özbakır, Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu Başkanlığı Yayınları, İstanbul 2024, ISBN: 978-975-17-5794-4; 348 s.
Kenan Tekin is an Assistant Professor of the History of Philosophy at Boğaziçi University. His research interests include Islamic philosophy in general and history and philosophy of science during the Ottoman period (1300-1900) in particular. In 2016, he received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University with a dissertation entitled “Reforming Categories of Science and Religion in the Late Ottoman Empire”. Tekin was a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 2019 to 2021. He has published several research articles and book chapters on the theory of science in post-classical Islamic history (c. 1250-1550) including “Islamic Philosophy and the Globalization of Science: Ahmed Cevdet's Translation of the Sixth Chapter of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah” (The British Journal for the History of Science 55, no. 4 (2022): 459–75) and “The Conception of Science in Postclassical Islamic Thought (647–905/1250–1500): A Study of Debates in Commentaries and Glosses on the Prolegomenon of al-Kātibī’s Shamsiyya” (Journal of Islamic Philosophy 13 (2022): 83-123). Tekin received the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2024. He is currently working on a book project on Islamic philosophy of science.